Left Fabiola in Rio... sad to have to say goodbye as Fabiola made Brazil so good for us! obrigado por tudo Fabiolita! more to the point, we were now alone in portugese speaking lands, which was going to be challenging.

Anyway, headed back south to paraty, a lovely little colonial town to enjoy some last moments on the beach before heading south back to the colder climate of argentina.

paraty is beautiful... very colourful. Once again, we were blessed with good weather throughout our stay there.

mainly spent time discovering lovely little beaches around paraty and visiting the town itself

. I (nick) ended up making a very random purchase: a berimbau, an instrument used when playing capoeira! but really love it, so happy to have bought it... but completely impractical to carry around, esp. as we are now getting seriously overloaded!

so thats it for paraty. we survived despite the portugese. said goodbye to the beautiful beaches of brazil and set off towards the gigantic iguazu falls on the border with argentina!